October Update

Here we are at the end of October!
The last few weeks have been so busy.  I've wanted to get on here and let everyone know what we've been up to but it's just easier (and faster) to do Facebook updates these days.  (The super old computer I have to edit pictures on also doesn't help.)

Let's see...what have we been doing this month?
Celebrating our 9th anniversary with a kid free weekend "camping" at Nehalem Bay.

(Yes...that is Gabe reading a BOOK!  He actually almost finished the whole book during the course of the weekend.)

Levi went on his pumpkin patch field trip with Grandma G and his class.
Levi has been taking swimming lessons 2 mornings a week.  Silly kid still hates to put his face in the water but can float on his back for 10 seconds!

When I asked Levi what he wanted to be for Halloween months ago, his response was "Something scary."
For awhile it was a ghost and he finally decided it doesn't get much scarier than a skeleton.
So here's our little scary skeleton dressed up at the zoo on Saturday.

And the elephants, including baby Lily sure were playful.
It was so much fun to watch them splash and wrestle in the pool!

We carved our pumpkins.
Levi and Daddy wanted to make their Jack-O-Lanterns "scary".  I decided mine needed to be happy.

As you can see, this kid is really excited about Halloween and being scary.  It's all he talks about these days!

Last but not least, we took Gabe's project car for a spin this weekend!  His smile might not show it in this picture, but Gabe is very thrilled to have it driving.  (I won't tell you what his top speed down Multnomah Blvd was...) Now to get it to pass DEQ and get the new tags, renewal and such.

We're looking at another crazy week around here but I'll try to be a little more prompt with pictures from trick-or-treating.

Pumpkins!

Not such a beautiful weekend to head to the pumpkin patch.  But since the month of October is turning out to be busier than we'd hoped, yesterday was about our only choice.  Foggy, drizzly weather and all.

We did manage to find some nice pumpkins.

Levi took a "quick" spin around the patch on the tractor barrel train.

He looked a little worried while the "train" was going but said it was fun when he got off!

Someone at our house is getting really excited about Halloween!  He was also not very happy when he was told he'd have to wait a few weeks to turn our 3 pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns.

Apples!

This weekend we've had the most amazingly beautiful fall weather.  I think it's been especially sweet since we had that crazy rain/wind storm last weekend!

Saturday we went east to Hood River to pick apples.

Like I said...BEAUTIFUL!

We picked some Jonagold and Gala apples for apple sauce.

We picked some Empire apples for baking.  (Currently there is a dutch apple pie cooling for dessert tonight.)

And of course we had to pick some Honeycrisp apples simply for eating! 

The sunshine has been a blessing since it also allowed us a chance to clean up the garden and yard in preparation for the next 6 months of rain!
We're hopeful for more fall weekends like this.